Mid-year Business Reality Check
"Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning." (Benjamin Franklin) I've been reading and listening to Dr. Joe Dispenza (Breaking the Habit of Being Yourself: How to Lose your Mind and Create a New One), and something he says frequently has really stuck with me in a big way. It has impacted me personally and professionally. The statement that Dr. Joe often repeats is that the familiar past becomes the predictable future. The VERY basic idea is that most of us get up every day and repeat the same tasks and the same routine mindlessly. We even tend to think the same thoughts--day after day after day--without realizing we do it, or…